Post #792394 by TikiHardBop on Fri, Jan 11, 2019 2:22 PM

Hey! We just caught a keeper right off our coast!

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2019/01/11/monster-puffer-fish-cocoa-angler-hooks-potential-world-record-breaker-off-port-canaveral/2534704002/

Partial text of story:

The bizarre-looking sea creature Adhem Saleh brought back to Sunrise Marina puzzled veteran fishermen and charter captains: "Everyone was like, 'It's a crazy parrotfish or something,'" he recalls.

Turns out Saleh had reeled in a potential world record-shattering oceanic puffer fish. The Cocoa resident caught the 9.65-pound whopper Monday offshore near Port Canaveral.

"I thought it was amazing. It was the biggest puffer fish I've ever seen in my life," said Jason Fifer, who runs Reel Trick Charters and boasts 22 years of offshore fishing experience.